Maker profile — PEOPLE German-born Elena Renker was into pottery from the moment she was introduced to it by a wonderful craft teacher as a child. She later made plans to spend a year working in a pottery in the village of Bergen in Germany's Bavaria, but before she did so, took up an invitation from a friend to spend three months at India's Golden Bridge Pottery. She had an amazing time, and for someone who'd always enjoyed making functional, everyday objects, it planted a seed. The year in Bergen followed, before she moved to Bavaria's capital, Munich, to study graphic design, got married, got pregnant and immigrated to New Zealand. In 1998, 20 years after her initial stints, she started potting again when the youngest of her five children…
